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Can you decline this? Sounds like he's very bright and they are wasting his time with this. I'd tell them thanks, but no - your son has math under control.
Well, yay! I didn't read everything before I replied.I spoke to Evan's teacher and it turns out she made a mistake in recommending this extra class for Evan. I told her Scott and I had discussed it but did not feel his grades warranted him staying after school. She said she didn't have his information in front of her and I said I do...and read off what she had put on his report card in the comment section for math testing. She was really taken aback and she said she must have made a mistake in reading the lines on her master result chart. She apologized several times and I said it was ok that I was glad it was a mistake.
Then we spent a little time just talking about the mechanics of the test and how it worked, just to make sure I understood correctly about not every student necessarily taking the same test because it adjusts to past scores. She said yes, and not only that but it also adjusts while they're taking the test, if they continually get answers right, the questions keep getting more difficult (which often results in material they haven't covered yet and if they get a few in a row wrong, the test will take them down yet another path, with easier questions. So what Evan had on his test was not necessarily anything like what the kid next to him had on his test.
All is well though, she was embarrassed and apologetic about making the mistake and said Evan is doing very well.
Those things sound bad for you. The thing I'm talking about frees you from those things. I said if that thing you were sharing saved your life, do the things you're talking about there save lives?
I want to hear the stories about these countries with one athlete.
No, of course not.
That's the absolute truth, "What you think is most wonderful and saves people's lives may NOT be what others want to hear or believe." Whoever that's gotten a report from their doctor that they have cancer and they're going to have to have surgery and or chemo to deal with it has wanted to hear or believe that? But it's still necessary to tell them isn't it? They can choose to refuse treatment, but they still have to be given the information.
Sorry... that kinda just bubbled up and over. 
It is better to let it bubble over than hold it in.
Today (and yesterday) I am rather upset at those #%@&ing a$$wipes that phone you to "fix" your computer. Now normally I will have a little bit of fun with them, but they have taken to phoning at night--late at night.
Yesterday it was 11:00pm and tonight, it was midnight. I have kids you jerks and if you wake them up.... I will reach through the phone and 'fix' your computer for you... or something.
To be honest, I have (very) elderly grandparents and a parent that recently had surgery, so when my phone rings late at night... it always scares the crap out of me because normally it heralds bad news.
Leave us alone... get a real job, you know... one where you don't try to take advantage of somebody else. Grrrr.
I agree with Spidey, Flake - damn those telemarketers - sometimes you just have to vent!It is better to let it bubble over than hold it in.
It is better to let it bubble over than hold it in.
Um..... I have to admit, that I did vent--I may have even created a new language.I agree with Spidey, Flake - damn those telemarketers - sometimes you just have to vent!
(((Flake)))
